TY - JOUR
T1 - USING VIRTUAL OR AUGMENTED REALITY FOR THE TIME-BASED STUDY OF COMPLEX UNDERWATER ARCHAEOLOGICAL EXCAVATIONS
AU - Nawaf, M.
AU - Drap, P.
AU - Ben-Ellefi, M.
AU - Nocerino, E.
AU - Chemisky, B.
AU - Chassaing, T.
AU - Colpani, A.
AU - Noumossie, V.
AU - Hyttinen, K.
AU - Wood, J.
AU - Gambin, T.
AU - Sourisseau, J. C.
N1 - Funding Information:
Two aspects of this exceptional wreck, the purely archaeological point of view as well as its state of conservation, have led the University of Malta to push its research further to test and develop new approaches of 3D survey and archaeological excavations at much greater depths. The first survey campaign took place in 2014 with the cooperation of COMEX1 and CNRS. This work was funded by the French Agence Nationale de la Recherche (ANR) as part of the GROPLAN project led by CNRS. A publication presents the results obtained then (Drap et al., 2015).
Funding Information:
A previous work on Xlendi VR was achieved in the framework of the Imareculture project (imareculture, 2018) funded by the EU. It is possible to visit the Xlendi shipwreck while staying dry via the project’s website.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2021 M. Nawaf et al.
PY - 2021/9/10
Y1 - 2021/9/10
N2 - Cultural Heritage (CH) resources are partial, heterogeneous, discontinuous, and subject to ongoing updates and revisions. The use of semantic web technologies associated with 3D graphical tools is proposed to improve access, exploration, exploitation and enrichment of these CH data in a standardized and more structured form. This article presents the monitoring work developed for more than ten years on the excavation of the Xlendi site. Around an exceptional shipwreck, the oldest from the Archaic period in the Western Mediterranean, we have set up a unique excavation at a depth of 110m assisted by a rigorous and continuous photogrammetry campaign. All the collected results are modelled by an ontology and visualized with virtual and augmented reality tools that allow a bidirectional link between the proposed graphical representations and the non-graphical archaeological data. It is also important to highlight the development of an innovative 3D mobile app that lets users study and understand the site as well as experience sensations close to those of a diver visiting the site.
AB - Cultural Heritage (CH) resources are partial, heterogeneous, discontinuous, and subject to ongoing updates and revisions. The use of semantic web technologies associated with 3D graphical tools is proposed to improve access, exploration, exploitation and enrichment of these CH data in a standardized and more structured form. This article presents the monitoring work developed for more than ten years on the excavation of the Xlendi site. Around an exceptional shipwreck, the oldest from the Archaic period in the Western Mediterranean, we have set up a unique excavation at a depth of 110m assisted by a rigorous and continuous photogrammetry campaign. All the collected results are modelled by an ontology and visualized with virtual and augmented reality tools that allow a bidirectional link between the proposed graphical representations and the non-graphical archaeological data. It is also important to highlight the development of an innovative 3D mobile app that lets users study and understand the site as well as experience sensations close to those of a diver visiting the site.
KW - Augmented reality
KW - Ontology
KW - Underwater archaeology
KW - Virtual reality
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U2 - 10.5194/isprs-annals-VIII-M-1-2021-117-2021
DO - 10.5194/isprs-annals-VIII-M-1-2021-117-2021
M3 - Conference article
AN - SCOPUS:85120074082
SN - 2194-9042
VL - 8
SP - 117
EP - 124
JO - ISPRS Annals of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences
JF - ISPRS Annals of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences
IS - M-1-2021
T2 - 28th CIPA Symposium on Great Learning and Digital Emotion, CIPA 2021
Y2 - 28 August 2021 through 1 September 2021
ER -